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May 14, 1071
1071
Byzantine army is destroyed by Turks -
May 14, 1071
1071-1085
Mercenary Seljuk Turks conquer Syria and Palestine. The City of Jerusalem is taken from the more civilized Saracen caliphs -
May 14, 1085
1085-1095
3000 Christian Pilgrims were massacred in Jerusalem and the Christian churches were destroyed or used as stables -
May 14, 1095
1095
Peter the Hermit took up the cry "God wills it!" and ordinary people join in the 'People's Crusade' - most were unarmed -
May 14, 1096
1096
The Peoples Crusade were annihilated by the Turks in Anatolia -
May 14, 1097
1097
Siege of Nicacea -
May 14, 1097
1097
The Siege of Antioch -
May 14, 1098
1098
Bohemond I, elder son of Robert Guiscard, led the capture of Antioch -
May 14, 1099
1099
The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city